Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yasmine El-Rashidi


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete. Jaranda wat's sup 01:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Yasmine El-Rashidi

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This article has multiple considerations for it's AFD. The primary statements in the article that support its notability are mostly limited to "an Egyptian journalist and writer who has had multiple articles published, many by The Wall Street Journal". The article appears to fail WP:N and many statements fail WP:V

Note - the section listed as References is in reality a bibliography it is a list of works the person has written, not a list of articles about the person. There is little doubt this title needs to be changed but as I (User:jeepday) Prodded the article and am now submitting it for AFD, I did not want to complicate the issue by also editing the article.


 * 1) The article was originated 04:02, 16 December 2006 User:Yasminerashidi  (←Created page with 'Yasmine El-Rashidi is an Egyptian journalist and writer. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism (99) and has covered t...')
 * 2) The article author appears to be the subject who made no other edits Special:Contributions/Yasminerashidi This looks like a clear WP:COI problem
 * 3) User:jeepday proded the article on 14:22, 3 February 2007
 * 4) user:Inkpaduta removed the prod and began work on the artilce on  09:50, 6 February 2007 (sounds fine, but)
 * 5) The first edit by user:Inkpaduta is 22:59, 3 February 2007 bringing Sock puppetry into question, As this editors first contribution is 8 hours After the article Yasmine El-Rashidi was prodded', see Special:Contributions/Inkpaduta
 * 6) I attempted to validate the the first news article "referenced" on this article, I found what appears to be from the The Wall Street Journal on line http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116009288369684389.html%3Fmod%3DdjemITP that an article titled "Ramadan Turns Into Big Business" was written By Yasmine El-Rashidi as stated as the first "reference" on the article

AFD submitted by Jeepday 15:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete OK, shoot me down in flames if you wish. The subject appears to be a competent journalist, who has no other claim to notability. Clearly, the encyclopedia should not carry an article about every practising newspaper journalist; I find nothing raising this lady above her colleagues.--Anthony.bradbury 16:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletions.   --   &rArr; bsnowball  08:55, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Seems to be a pretty well-known Middle Eastern reporter; has definitely appeared on at least Christopher Lydon's Open Source talk show, and of course we should cut her some slack as a non-Westerner, it would be nice to have more Egyptians in the Wikipedia. I'm not enthusiastic, but... --Brianyoumans 09:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Seeing that the originator of the article is titled I would venture a guess that this article is self-promotion. Since its inception it has recieved very little informational additions as to why the subject is noteworthy. I am afraid I have to agree with its deletion. --Ozgod 04:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


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